[Skiboot] [PATCH v2 1/4] ipmi: Add a function to (re)initialise a message without allocation

[Joel Stanley]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Alistair Popple <alistair at popple.id.au> wrote:
> Currently the only functions we have for initialising ipmi messages
> with the correct values also allocate memory for the message. In some
> cases we want to reuse previously allocated messages to avoid
> continually freeing/allocating memory.
>
> This patch introduces a function which (re)initialises a previously
> allocated message and converts existing instances of this behaviour
> over to the new function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair at popple.id.au>

Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>

> ---
>  core/ipmi.c            | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
>  hw/ipmi/ipmi-fru.c     |  7 +++----
>  hw/ipmi/ipmi-sel.c     | 24 ++++++++++++------------
>  hw/ipmi/test/run-fru.c |  8 ++++++++
>  include/ipmi.h         |  8 +++++++-
>  5 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)